Can I use a breast pump when weaning?

When it comes to weaning their babies, parents must follow scientific principles, such as choosing the right time to wean their babies. If they are weaned too early, it will lead to low immunity and cause many other harms. After mothers wean their babies, the excess milk cannot remain in the breasts for a long time. Can they use a breast pump to suck it out at this time?

Can I use a breast pump when weaning?

If you are weaning, then you can only express the excess breast milk.

Guidance:

If this continues for a long time, acute mastitis is likely to occur, which is very painful, so you should continue to choose appropriate medication.

During the weaning period, there will be milk swelling, so you need to pay attention to care and drink less soup. You can use a breast pump to suck out some of the milk.

Guidance:

But don't suck out too much. Pay attention to care and diversify the food. Take some vitamin B6 and observe for a while.

Is this your first child? How long has it been now? How much breast milk is produced each time? Are you fully weaned now? Please advise

Guidance:

Generally, mothers who are having their first child lack feeding experience. If the baby has been completely weaned and there is still a lot of breast milk each time, you must squeeze it out or use a breast pump to suck it out, otherwise it will cause acute mastitis.

Is it painful to wean? You can use a breast pump to suck out some of the milk, but the key is to get the milk back out. Weaning can be treated with Chinese medicine.

Guidance:

To stop weaning, it is recommended to use Chinese medicine of fried barley malt and boil it in water. Barley malt should be used in larger dosage, generally 60 to 100 grams a day, boiled in water and drunk, and it will usually get better in three to five days.

It's really uncomfortable, I must use a breast pump to suck it out. If you are weaning, you must also breastfeed. Well, when you have exhausted yourself and can't bear it anymore, use a breast pump to suck it all out. Otherwise, you will easily get mastitis. Use it for the whole day and don't wash too many times. If the breasts are very swollen, just breastfeed once in the morning and at night, otherwise the milk will not come back.

During the weaning period, if the breasts are not unbearably swollen, it is best not to pump out the milk, because stimulation can easily cause continued secretion of milk. However, if the swelling and pain are uncomfortable, you can squeeze out all the milk at once.